whisper voices and creepy shadows ★★☆☆☆

Annie suffered from her possessed mother’s spells as a child and is now Sister Ann (Jacqueline Byers), a student at a Boston exorcism institute. When she takes care of a young girl in the closed wing for possessed patients, she perceives the clichés from which Prey for the Devil is built up: a reflection in the window, shadows under the door, whispering voices in the hallway.

While Ann fights Lucifer’s foot soldiers, as the demons speaking in twisted voices are called here, she also fights the patriarchy. After all, within this institute, which is controlled by the Vatican, only men are allowed on exorcism training. Not a bad find, but Byers is not a female counterpart to Max von Sydow, exorcist on duty in a major example film The Exorcists (1973). For that Prey for the Devildespite a twist here and there, too generic.